Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014

We are sorry to report that author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at age 87, after a long illness. Marquez, considered the master of magical realism, published novels, novellas, short stories, and non-fiction throughout his career, including the classics One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Autumn of the Patriarch, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967, has been translated into thirty-seven languages, sold more than 20 million copies, and has exerted a massive influence on literature around the world. In 1982, Marquez became the first Colombian and fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. You can read his Nobel Lecture here.

His work, particularly his dedication to using fantastical elements in otherwise realistic settings, made an enormous impact on writers around the globe, and his influence can be seen in much of today’s writing that blurs the line between solid reality and amorphous truth. He will be terribly missed.